Erschienen in:
01.11.2010 | 2010 SSAT Plenary Presentation
Comparing Complications of Esophagectomy and Pancreaticoduodenectomy and Potential Impact on Hospital Systems Utilizing the Accordion Severity Grading System
verfasst von:
Donald E. Low, MadhanKumar Kuppusamy, Yasushi Hashimoto, L. William Traverso
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
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Ausgabe 11/2010
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Excerpt
The formalized assessment of surgical outcomes can be a straightforward process when assessing certain parameters such as operative time, length of hospital stay, and mortality. Although complications are typically reported, the opportunity to specifically compare morbidity between centers and individual operations is impaired by the lack of standardized criteria defining complications associated with surgical procedures.
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3 Various assessments have demonstrated that surgical complications will have measureable impact on mortality,
4 length of stay (LOS),
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5 survival,
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6 and costs.
7 However, the lack of a standardized system or “gold standard” for assessing the incidence and impact of complications
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3 remains a significant problem in interpreting the surgical literature.
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